PURPOSE: To obtain a surface sheet for an absorbing article having improved properties required for the sheet such as fitness, hand and drape, dryness and softness.
CONSTITUTION: This surface sheet for an absorbing article is composed of a nonwoven fabric having a number of ridges and grooves alternately arranged to each other in such a manner as to have no plain part. The ridge is curved in a protruding state and the groove is in a recessed state, and the groove has a number of openings with a space between them. A ratio of a bulk softness in the direction parallel to the ridges and the grooves to that in the direction perpendicular to them is ≥1.7 and a bulk softness in a direction perpendicular to the grooves is ≤12g. Further, the thickness at a load of 0.5g/cm2 is ≥0.7mm.
NAGAHARA SHINSUKE
KASAI MARIE
NAKANISHI MINORU
